Literary Figures
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Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
$28.95 Add to cart–Selected for the In the Margins Book Awards 2024 Top Ten Title List and 2024 Nonfiction Recommendation List
“In this inspiring, often harrowing narrative, the author chronicles how, shortly after he
- Author: Wheatle, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1636140939
- Language: English
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Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays
$18.99 Add to cart“I had a real romance with this book.” –Miranda July
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshing and welcome,” that explores the myriad ways- Author: Hodson, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1250170192
- Language: English
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Enemies of Promise
$19.00 Add to cart
“Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a b… [more below]- Author: Connolly, Cyril
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226115046
- Language: English
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La Búsqueda de Un Sueño (a Dream Called Home Spanish Edition): Una AutobiografÃa
$18.99 Add to cartLa extraordinaria historia de Reyna Grande–que comenzó en su exitosa autobiografÃa La distancia entre nosotros–continúa ahora en esta fabulosa travesÃa para encontrar su lugar en los Estados Uni… [more below]
- Series: Atria Espanol
- Author: Grande, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1501172077
- Language: Spanish
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Fruit Punch: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartAn arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up as a Black child desperate to create a clear reality for herself in this country
Written in a distinct
- Author: Allen, Kendra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0063139839
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$20.00 Add to cartCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250893550
- Language: English
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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
$18.00 Add to cart2019 National Book Award Finalist
“Reading it will change you, perhaps forever.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time.” –Margaret Atwood What You Have Heard is- Author: Forché, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0525560394
- Language: English
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote’s “”Black and White Dance”” in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, a… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 047009821X
- Language: English
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Papillon [Movie Tie-In]
$17.99 Add to cart“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHARLIE HUNNAM AND RAMI MALEK
Henri Charri鑽e, nicknamed “Papillon,” for the butterfly tattoo on his c
- Author: Charriere, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062882465
- Language: English
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
$19.99 Add to cartCharles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us th
- Author: Michaelis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060937998
- Language: English
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Syntax of the River: The Pattern Which Connects
$19.95 Add to cartBarry Lopez had no illusions about the seriousness of our global crisis, yet he also felt a deep conviction about the power of hope and the sources of renewal in the living world. Syntax of the River … [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1595349898
- Language: English
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Hemingway: The Paris Years: The Paris Years (Revised)
$29.99 Add to cartThe 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer, whether he was sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318796
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$25.00 Read moreJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, an
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0393248526
- Language: English
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Mientras Escribo: Memorias de Un Oficio / On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
$17.00 Add to cartPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, til y revelador.
Cuando Stephen King se decidi a escribir sobre su profesi n y su vida, un brutal accidente automovil s… [more below]- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593311507
- Language: Spanish
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The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen
$34.95 Add to cartThe Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity–and the limits–of marriage. The Lawrences come aliv
- Author: Squires, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180467
- Language: English
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
$17.99 Add to cartCairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents’ belle 駱oque mansion by the Nile, t… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743475615
- Language: English
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All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-African… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 067973404X
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 12
$56.25 Add to cartThe surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his- Series: Mark Twain Papers #12
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0520279948
- Language: English
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Hank Williams: The Biography
$18.99 Add to cart– Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many… [more below]
- Author: Macewen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0316734977
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
$23.00 Add to cart“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American panth… [more below]
- Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 022659937X
- Language: English
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